In the heart of Florence there are streets that aren't appropriate for strolling and shopping: they have narrow, inconvenient sidewalks and aren't faced by elegant shop windows but only by shutters of stock rooms, old street doors leading to cramped stairs or, rarely, windows of small shops or workshops.Among these ancient streets of the historic centre there is via San Zanobi with its row houses all resembling each other although they are never the same, its stone floor worn out by the centuries, its innumerable windows with their unmistakable shutters.To portray this small view, made entirely on location in an afternoon of pale winter sun, I used water-soluble pencils and waterbrush, letting water merge colours together to give life to a drawing not only descriptive but most of all expressing my own feelings.